Agatha Christie said of (her) life, “One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.” This quote signifies that Agatha Christie’s life was formatted in such a way that even the worse of things that occurred had a reason, and inevitably led her to the top and to her lasting legacy. Despite Agatha Christie’s bad marriage to her cheating husband and inability to go to school, Christie has sold more books than any other writer except for Shakespeare and the Bible. No matter how much success and how much recognition she had, she continued to improve and better what seems like perfection in her novels. Her ability to make such success out of such a past and continuously write outside of the box was an inspiration to women and women authors that were perhaps intimidated or scared to pursue their dreams and careers in the late 1890s until the late 1970s.
Christie’s Mom believed in an educational theory that a female child’s mind ought to be left alone to receive its own impressions which supports why Christie did not go to school.
Agatha Christie stated, “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” Whether Agatha Christie is calling her childhood happy and showing content-ness or she’s stressing her opinion and wishing she had one of those and is envious of whoever had one, is a mystery. However she viewed her childhood, it impacted her writing styles and her intense legacy left behind. She never had to experience the guidelines set out at school and she wrote based on how she wanted to which truly differs from other authors and playwrights. Even though she was not in school, her mom encouraged her to continue writing. This meant Christie fill...
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...ed. She made the form of the pure mystery novel concise which is setting the par which is unlikely to ever be bettered. She recreated mystery in her name so people have to write liker her and she had no need to try to write like anyone else which made her able to stay true to herself. Since Agatha Christie’s name is known all over her books were translated into over 100 languages creating worldwide success from a girl who had a not-so-perfect past making her a worldwide success story.
In conclusion, as time continued to pass, Agatha Christie’s ingenuity started to decrease and her battle between the readers started to become simpler, but not predictable by any means. In essence, as Agatha deteriorated, her complexity did also. But her legacy still lives on because of her complex plots and well known play The Mousetrap that have the title of longest running.
Personal experiences always have a different impact on the readers as well as the writers. Kate Chopin and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing styles derive from their personal experiences. For example, some of Chopin’s personal experiences include her growing up surrounded by intelligent and independent women, her being widowed at the age of thirty-two and
Margaret had huge dreams of one day becoming a writer, but those dreams were put on hold when her father suddenly passed away in 1835. At this time, her mother was also sick and it became her responsibility to take care of her family’s finances. There were not many job opportunities available to women during this time, she found a teaching job and accepted the position. She first began teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston and taught there until she went on to teach at the well-kn...
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16th, 1938, in Lockport, New York. Raised on her parent’s farm in a rural area that had been hit by the Great Depression, she attended the same one-room school house as her mother. As a young child, Oates developed a love of literature and writing well beyond her years. She was very encouraged by her parents and grandparents to pursue her love of writing and as a teenager she was given her first typewriter. This was when her passion finally came to life. In 1953 at the age of only 15, she wrote her first novel about the rehabilitation of a drug dealer, which was later turned down by the publisher because the topic was not suitable for a young audience. Although her novels do focus on the horrors of society, her childhood growing up was no reflection of that. Oates has admitted that her childhood was “dull, ordinary and nothing people would be interested in. Oates continued writing throughout high school and earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University. There she graduated at the top of her class in 1960, and in...
"Lorraine Hansberry: Personal Struggles." Literary Cavalcade 57.8 (2005): 22-23. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
These women authors have served as an eye-opener for the readers, both men and women alike, in the past, and hopefully still in the present. (There are still cultures in the world today, where women are treated as unfairly as women were treated in the prior centuries). These women authors have impacted a male dominated society into reflecting on of the unfairness imposed upon women. Through their writings, each of these women authors who existed during that masochistic Victorian era, risked criticism and retribution. Each author ignored convention a...
...t really catch the readers’ attention. Although she wasn’t writing in the major eras, she did write in the era where the style of writing was changing. This allowed her to be able to write freely and truly express herself through her words and illusions.
I enjoyed the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was filled with adventure and I liked how both conflicts were resolved at the end. I chose this book because Mrs. Donius recommended it to me. She said she loved it and it was one of her favorites. I would recommend this book to a wide range of readers. Anyone from the age of thirteen and older could enjoy this novel.
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Print.
Definitive criteria for judging the success or failure of a work of fiction are not easily agreed upon; individuals almost necessarily introduce bias into any such attempt. Only those who affect an exorbitantly refined artistic taste, however, would deny the importance of poignancy in literary pieces. To be sure, writings of dubious and fleeting merit frequently enchant the public, but there is too the occasional author who garners widespread acclaim and whose works remain deeply affecting despite the passage of time. The continued eminence of the fiction of Emily Bronte attests to her placement into such a category of authors: it is a recognition of her propensity to create poignant and, indeed, successful literature.
The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most “confessional” poets of her time, Anne Sexton was also one of the most criticized. She was known to use images of incest, adultery, and madness to reveal the depths of her deeply troubled life, which often brought on much controversy. Despite this, Anne went on to win many awards and go down as one of the best poets of all time.
Gilbert, S., Gubar, S. (2000) The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. Yale University Press. Dixon, R W (1886) Personal letters.
Murder is the most sinister of any crime you can commit as you are taking life away from someone who isn't ready to go. It is especially irrational when murder is carried out with no motive. This could only be the work of a madman. With crime people seek justice and will make their best efforts to achieve it. In the ABC Murders by Agatha Christie we explore the mystery of not one, but four murders carried out meticulously and with proper planning. In this novel we get to see the solving process of an interesting murder case through two private detectives who have gotten back together after some time apart in retirement. We get to see how they are able to think like a murder and determine the motives and planning behind the crimes.
Author- Agatha Christie was born in 1890 in England and raised by a wealthy American father and English mother. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 78 crime novels and was made a dame in 1971. She was married twice, her second husband being an archeologist whom she often traveled with on his archeological exhibitions to the Middle East. This gave her an understanding of that part of the world, which she used in this story. Agatha Christie died in 1976 in her home in England.
Having never gone to university and starting out as a temp, rising to CEO, while churning out best-selling novels, it was by sheer strength of will that she has managed to become what she is today. Her big break came when she was offered a permanent position at Sun Alliance, which gave her the chance to study during the evenings. She had always been interested in pursuing writing and had followed detective writers such as Lee Child and Agatha Christie ever since she was a child. Nonetheless, she had always taken writing as a hobby until the publication and success of her first novel Requiem Mass in 1998. Having tasted success, she would dip her toes into full tie writing in 2005, when she was in between jobs.
As Woolf grew older, she was educated by her mother, and eventually a tutor. Due to her father’s position, there were always famous writers over the house interacting with the young Virginia and the Woolf’s large house library. Within her writing, Woolf often appears angry or depressed, which both stems from childhood.... ... middle of paper ...